Jun 25
- The process of correctly sizing uplink and downlink paths.
- Takes into account:
- Established Satellite performance
- Path Loss (22,300 miles traversing space)
- Atmospheric effects (weather, ion storms, sunspots, etc.)
- Frequency bands used (Ku, C, Ka)
- Hub uplink antenna and amplifier performance
- Downlink antenna size and receiver noise figure
Link Budget Rain :
- Design for the specified availability
- 99.5% availability will give you about two days of outage per year
- 99.9% will give just 8 hours of outage per year
- Note that only the Uplink at the Hub can compensate for rain, by using the UPC




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